Top 5 Deepa Anappara Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Ma said Bahadur’s ma was unlucky in marriage but was lucky in work, and that everyone had something going right and wrong in their lives – their good or bad children, kind or cruel neighbors, or an ache in the bones that a doctor could cure easily or not at all – and this was how you knew the gods at least tried to be fair.”

— Deepa Anappara

2. “What is a whole life? If you die when you’re still a child, is your life whole or half or zero?”

— Deepa Anappara

3. “The poem wants to know why the moon is sliced in half on some days and why it‘s a circle in other days. The worst thing about the poem is that it doesn‘t answer it‘s own question.”

— Deepa Anappara

4. “Our gods are too busy to hear our prayers, but ghosts – ghosts have nothing to do but wait and wander, wander and wait, and they are always listening to our words because they are bored and that‘s one way to pass the time.”

— Deepa Anappara

5. “I like to spy on other families that are sad like ours because I want to find out if they are doing anything different to stop ghosts from clutching their bones.”

— Deepa Anappara

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